Stephen L Richards · 1954 April General Conference · 1954-04-03
Officially published Conference Report; proofread against IA scan conferencereport1954a (leaf 10-14, printed pp. 10-14). No CHL/official-Church verification could be completed this session (client-rendered SPA catalog not reachable by available tools); IA retained as top-level source per docs/review.md.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; corrected an h/n OCR misread in the Alma 42:24-25 quotation ("hot one whit" to "not one whit") and restored the quotation's original comma.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: CHL catalog record for April 1954 could not be verified this session (client-rendered SPA, no browser tool access); IA scan conferencereport1954a kept as retained top-level source per docs/review.md. Page-by-page collation against the scan (leaf 10-14, printed pp. 10-14) confirms this is President Stephen L Richards's (First Counselor in the First Presidency) address at the First Day General Priesthood Meeting, Saturday, April 3, 1954, immediately following President J. Reuben Clark Jr.'s remarks (not in this 29-file batch) and preceding President McKay's closing remarks. Set talk_order 3, exact date, and calling. Body matches scan verbatim apart from the one scripture-quotation OCR fix noted above.
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